Mississippi Burning

Mississippi 1964: Three civil rights activists are shot dead on the street at night. The perpetrator and his accomplices are members of the Ku Klux Klan. FBI agent Rupert Anderson, who comes from the southern states, is entrusted with solving the case. But he and his young colleague Alan Ward come up against a wall of silence - is the police also in league with the KKK? Only the deputy sheriff's wife shows any co-operation and is therefore on the clan's hit list ... In gripping images and with excellent actors, director Alan Parker shows the bloody battle between white racists and the black population, which is based on a true story. The murderer was not convicted until 2005. This project was also very important to Pleskow personally: "It was particularly touching when the mother of one of the victims called me one day to say: 'Thank you for making this film. My son and his colleagues would otherwise have been forgotten'."